WELCOME CEMETERY
BEAT 8 CONECUH COUNTY
15 mi. north of Evergreen and seven mi. so. of Mckenzie
on west side of Alabama Highway 31 at Welcome Methodist
Church on west side of Hwy near W.O.W. Camp Grounds.
Starting with left back corner of Cemetery:
Vernel Crawford
Oct. 26, l930
Mar. 18, l935
Lonnie Crawford
Sept. 14, l876
Sept. 10, l951
Mattie Crawford
Jan 30. l895
Nov. 29, l972
Oliver Preston Brooks (Prez)
June 6, l892
Aug. 18, l966
"in loving memory"
Annie Lou Brooks
Aug. 23, l900
Dec. 3, l991
Abbie B. Diamond
June 23, l874
Jan. 17, l950
LEACH double
William Seaborn
Oct.9, l922 - Mar. 9, l965
Francis W. (Wiggins)
Dec. 3, l921
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Infant Twin Sons of:
WD and Betty Leach
Nov. 9, l966
PARTIN double
Junior
Mar. 19, 1953
JAN 2, l990
married June 3, l972
Deborah
Oct. 22, l956
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LEACH double
Mary Nadine Padgett
Sept. 3, l963 - June 29, l993
Married Sept. 3, l988
Willis Gary(Gator)
Dec. 11, l961
"God's angel for his kids"
Children: Eric and Mitchell
AMERSON double(Masonic)
Henry L.
Dec. 28, l882
July 6, l947
"gone but not forgotten"
Minnie H.
Mar.28, l885
June 3, l957
Ralph H. Amerson
May 14, l914
Dec. 3, l928
"gone but not forgotten"
PURNELL double
Kenneth Donald Purnell
Sp. 4 US Army Vietnam
May 30, l941 - Sept. 17, l995
Martha V.
Dec. 11, l944
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PURNELL double
Guy N.
Nov. 22, l906
Apr. 15, l969
Hazel W.
Dec. 14, l914
Sarah V. Weaver
Aug. 25, l852
May 13, l9l9
"none knew thee but to loe thee"
J.M. Weaver
May 7,l884
Oct. 28, l927
Pearl Mae Weaver
wife of WE Weaver
May 19, l885
June 2, l935
"not lost to those who love her"
William Elbert Weaver
Sept. 12, l887
Jan. l6, l975
"at rest"
Belle H. Weaver
Apr. 23, l900
Mar. l8, l988
"rest in peace"
PRESLEY double
Daddy
Mark Travis
July 29, l897
July 30, l975
Mother
Midgett Gardener
Sept. 10, l912
Oct. 22, l996
COLVIN double
Johnnie F.
Mar. l8, l910
May 6, l987
m. july 3, l930
Pauline F. Burke
May 4, l928
June l, l929
Emmett T. Colvin
June 5, l924
June 5, l991
Robert Leo Wood
AN US Navy Korea
Oct. l5, l929
Apr, 24, l991
m. june 10, l950
Maxine J. Wood
Jan l5, l930
June 23, l991
Mother
Annie Brooks
no dates
Andrew J. Boyette
Co. F. 33 Ala Inf.
CSA no dates
Fannie Boyette
l847 - l935
Nina Burke
Apr. 13, l877
Mar. 10, l950
BROOKS double
Britt
Apr. 6, l875
May 27, l939
"Rest in peace our beloved mom and dad"
Evie B.
June 6, l882
Jan.20, l965
Leon Rafford Hall
infant son of: Olliver and Callie Hall
Nov. l921 - Dec. 23, l921
William Henry
Infant of: Ernest and Donnie Barlow
Mar. 18, l922 -MAR l4, l923
BARLOW double
Ernest
Mar. 6, l897
Aug. 20, l953
Donnie
Dec. 16, l905
Aug. 1, l984
T.S. Martin
Apr. 7, l876
Nov. 11, l955
Albert Kelley (Woodman OW)
May 16, l908
May 12, l930
"none knew thee but to loe thee"
W.K. Kelley ( WOW marker)
May l5, l868 - Feb. 20, l926
"to know hm was to loe him"
UNMARKED(Believed to be :
Laura Coleman Kelley-wife
of WK)
UNMARKED infant matches Laura's(?) slab. No markings
UNMARKED
Presley---sir name only on marker
between these two
UNMARKED
Daniel Walter Presley
Jan 22, l882
Nov. 11, l931
Roxie Presley Huggins
Oct. 16, l890
Mar. 21, l978
Walter Lee Presley
Aug. 8, l925 - Dec. 23, l947
Alabama AMM 3C USNR
W.W.II
PRESLEY double (Masonic marker)
Mittie G.
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D. W.
l917-1961
"Gone but not forgotten"
Winston G. Presley
Apr. 7, l927 - May 26, l963
Alabama S2 USNR W. W. II
"In loving memory"
Mother
Aileen Presley Dillard
May 6, l931 - Jan 12, 2000
Charles Presley
Alabama S Sgt l00 Bomb GP AAF
W.W. II AM PH
June 27, l923 - Oct. 8, l943
Laura Nell Sanders
July 12, l944
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Annie Mae Presley
Jan. 12, l903
Feb. 8, l949
William C. Presley
July 8, l885
Aug. 7, l940
"His toils are past
his work is done
He fought the fight
his victory won"
Lizzie Davis
Apr. 28, l880
June 3, l960
Maggie Viola Smith
Oct. 15, l898
July 22, l986
Gertrue
Dau of AM Ray
Feb. 6, l905
Sept. 1, l905
Claudie
Dau of AM Ray
Oct. 18, l909
Aug. 9, l911
RAY double
John R. Ray
Alabama Pvt. Co. B 321 Inf
World War One
Oct. 8, l893 - June l5, l959
Betty H.
Feb. 26, l895
No death date
Mattie Ray
l861 - l944
"Her end was peace"
Old head and footstone
All lettering gone
Robert F. Ray
Sept. 26, l826
Aug. 8, l898
Old Stone
no letter or dates show
Lamon Carey Ray
l902 - l913
"Gone so soon"
Fannie Brown Ray
l866- l938
George R. Ray
l853 - l936
Ernest Dudley Ray
Alabama Sgt. 5 Co l57
Depot Brigade WW I
Oct. 2, l891 - Oct. 27, l959
Mollie Ray
Aug 6, l882
No death date
Ollie Ray
Nov. 2, l886
No death date
HUGHES double
Leonard H.
Dec. 26, l884
July 27, l964
Ruby W,
Mar. 6, l888
Dec. l9, l951
UNMARKED
UNMARKED
UNMARKED
William E. Brooks
Alabama pvt. Co. B 45
MG BN W. W. I
Feb. 28, l896 - Nov. 11, l967
McLAIN double
Charles P. McLain
Sept. l4, l894 - July 4, l945
Veteran World War I
Martha Mitchell
l841 -l881
"gone but not forgotten"
Clara O. Clements
Apr. 1, l902
Aug. 10, l959
ALEXANDER double
George Washington Alexander
May 16, l871
Nov. 8, l950
Mary Alabama
Apr. 8, l879
July 22, l964
Annie Williamson
June 20, l880
Jan 13, l965
James (Jim) Williamson
Mar. 5, l870
Apr, 10, l961
UNmarked Infant
Beside theWilliamsons
PATTERSON double
married My 29, l940
Abbie Leach
Sept, 11, l9l9
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Woodrow W.
Oct. 12, l912
July 9, l988
Marion J. Patterson
Sept. 7, l882
July 14, l957
Abbie C. Patterson
Sept. 10, l884
June 22, l973
BO Patterson
June 22, l909
Dec. 15, l981
WILSON double
John Frank
Dec. 30, l902
Nov. 3, l982
Susie P. (Patterson)
Apr.14, l9l4
June 29, l993
WRIGHT double
Hollis L.
June 25, l937
Oct. 6, l990
John T. Brown(no dates)
Co1 5 Fla CAV CSA
Roy Dee
Son of Ray and Tommie King
Feb. 20, l960
JOHNSON double
L> D> Johnson
PFC US Army WW II
Jan. 27, l920 - Mar. 7, l993
Annie Bell
Feb. l8, l917
Apr. 14, l994
JOHNSON double
James M (Jim)
Aug. 10, l888
Dec. 17, l957
Lula D.(Lou)
June 8, l889
June 28, l947
Helen Elaine Colvin
Mar. 10, l941
Oct. 29, l965
William Colvin
l937 - l947
UNMARKED
Several names and dates most unreadable
In memory of Francis Smith
l840-1886
Willis?? Smith May 10, l869 - l884
Mizy Smith, Sarah Smith, Phillips ?? Smith
all these names on one stone for old, old
graves with no signs left.
ONE STONE..Atleast 5 names
SMITH double
Stephen H.
l864 - l936
Victoria V.
l879 - l966
Raymond A. Smith
Alabama Pvt. US Army WW II
Dec. 7, l924--Dec. 22, l973
M. Geno Smith
Jan. 14, l928
Mar. 20, l982
Virgil J. Smith
Jan. 16, l900
June 25, l978
Gladys F Smith
Dec. 13, l913
May 25, l968
Dan W. Smith
SSgt. US Air Force
WW II Korea
Sept. 30, l9l8 - Dec. 7, l983
.
Willis A. Smith
May 30, 1910 -Aug. 25,l990
"The heart of man is
restless until it finds its rest in thee"
Cleveland D, smith
June29, l952
Jan. 3, l993
Minsie Smith Carter
Mar. 16, l905
Apr. 1, l993
"Have Faith in God"
Verma R. Smith
Jan 13, l915
Feb. 8, l992
Audrey L Smith
May 28, l921
May 27, l991
PRESLEY double
John Presley
no dates
Jane Presley
no dates
Old, old stone unreadable
BARLOW double
Jack E.
June 24, l913
Mar. 4, l994
Mary T.
May 19, l913
Dec. 27. 2000
BROWN double
Roy Roland
Nov. 25, l911
May 22, l946
Louise Travis
May 13, l915
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Joseph Malcolm Coxwell
Mar. 10. 1920
May 16, l975
"rest in peace"
UNMARKED Infant
O'FERRELL double
James D. (Buddy)
June 8, 1941
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Barbara A. Cook
Dec. 19, 1945
Nov. 20, l993
UNMARKED
UNMARKED
FATHER
Andrew Clebourne Coxwell
Mar. 1886 -Feb. 1953
MOTHER
Anne Barrow Coxwell
Wife of AC Coxwell
Feb. 12, l886 - Dec. 2, l973
"A sleep in Jesus"
KING double
Barbara Peacock
Feb. 25, l932
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William Barrett
May 12, l931
Jan. 4, l997
KING double
William Taft
Dec. 11, l908
Jan. 31, l965
Ruth Travis
Apr. 30, l913
Feb. 1, l988
TRAVIS double
Mamie B.
July 18, 1894
Feb. 22, l975
Mark B.
Jan 25, 1887
Ar.30, l972
Mark A. Travis
Nov. 29, 1864
Feb. 6, 1948
Mary J Travis
Apr. 19, 1861
Apr. 3, 1940
Bessie Travis
Wife of GD Coxwell
Sept. 26, 1898
Apr. 25, l928
"She has gone to her home
in Heaven and all her
afflictions are o'er"
COXWELL double
Saphronia T.
1894 -1970
George E.
1891 - 1972
"gone but not forgotten"
TRAVIS double(Masonic)
FATHER
Henry A.
March 19, 1890
Oct. 2, l966
MOTHER
Sarah O.
June 3, l889-Nov 3,1981
UNMARKED(in this Travis plot)
Mark Alexander Travis
May 25, 1911
Feb. 3, 1913
George Alexander
Nov 23, l851
Mar. 10, l913
Mother
Margaret Brown
Wife of George Alexander
June 7, l852
Feb. 6, l8l8
(Masonic emblem)
John Henry Alexander
Feb. 21, 1878
May 28, l961
"at rest"
ALEXANDER double
James B.
Oct. 17, 1875
Oct. 7, 1962
Beulah D.
July 12, 1890
Mar. 26, 1979
(Masonic)
William Walter Alexander(Walt)
Oct. 30, 1880
May 11, 1963
Sarah Alexander
May 24, 1884
Jan 13, 1966
Elitha Smith
Oct. 24, 1893
July 17, 1994
Earl Leon Coleman
Apr. 26, l943
May 5, l994
John Lewis Coleman
A2C US Air Force
Sept. 22, l937 - Dec. 3, l981
COLEMAN double
Lewis James Coleman
May 14, l910 -Aug. 19, 1960
(Other side unmarked)
Wesley Alexander
Aug. 22, 1913
Jan 30, 1917
"Christ loved and took him"
James Alexander
Co, F 2 Ala Inf CSA
no dates
JJ Alexander
Dec 12, l874
Dec. 10, 1901
Mary A. Alexander
Dec. 22, l850
no death date
William C. Travis
Son of Henry and Sarah Travis
Sept.4, 1908 -Jan.9, 1909
Albert W. Smith
Aug. 1, 1907
June 11, l909
"Mother"
Mary Alice Smith
l873 - 1936
Our Son
Rufus G. Smith Jr.
Mar. 28, 1931 - Dec. 28, 1936
Our daughter
Linda Smith
Mar. 26, 1947 - Sept. 16, 1948
Father
Britton James Smith (Masonic marker)
1870 - 1958
Mother (Eastern Star)
Nellie L.
wife of RG Smith
1909 - 1979
Father
Rufus Gordon Smith
(Husband of Nellie)
1903 - 1982
DANTZLER double
Fredrick M.
Georgia Cpl. USAR WWII
May 23, 1901 - Jan 23, 1971
Irma Brown
Feb. 24, 1900-May 17,1954
"I miss you now my heart is sore
As times goes by I miss you more
Your loving smile and gentle face
No one can fill your vacant place"
BROWN double
Father
William H.
Mar. 8,1848 - Oct. 17, l933
MOTHER
Melissa Livingston
Dec. 1, 1858 - june 8, l941
"A father and mother we cherished
is now gone. Their voice we loved
is stilled.A place is vacant in our home
That never can be filled"
BROWN double
Alice Lewis
Apr.1, 1899 - Feb. 9,-l995
William Edward
Jan. 24, l885 - Jan. 13, 1961
"Sleep undisturbed within this
peaceful shrine."
INFANT son of:
Minnie and Columbus Sowell
Minnie Brown Sowell
Jan 27, 1889 - June 18, l908
Columbus E. Sowell
Oct. 20, 1884
Jan 30, l935
Mother
Mary E. Brown
June 7, 1855- Dec. 26, 1929
"Gone but not forgotten"
David J. Brown
Co. E 38 Ala Inf CSA
no dates
Mark T. Brown
Mar. 27, 1882
Oct. 26, l926
BROWN double
Maude M.
Nov. 4, 1879 -Sept 12, 1972
Walter A.
Apr. 8, 1875
July 8, l936
Ennis Marvin Bown
Alabama S1USNR WWII
Sept. 25, 1911 - Mar. 7, 1962
BROWN double
Carl Hubert
Mar. 29, l905-Aug. 1, 1970
2nd space not marked
George Avan Atkins
CMSGT US Air Force Korea
Feb. 28, 1930- Mar. 17, 1999
HUGHES double
Johnny T.
1907-1960
Grace Hughes
1906 - no death date
Fred R. Heaton
1918 -1961
PRUETT double
Henry W.
Nov. 6, 1881 - Nov. 28, l963
Bessie B.
Apr. 22, 1886 - Aug. 7, l963
Infant son of:
HW and Bessie Pruett
Dec. 20, 1911 - Mar. 30, 1912
Foster M. Pruett
Aug. 25, 1916 - June 22, 1918
Floyd Jones
Sept. 14, 1903
Mar. 227, 1912
Maggie B. Jones
Mar. 27, l880
May 10, l939
Earl G. Smith
Aug. 16, 1934
May 13, 1992
BROWN double
Walter Allen
May 9, l909 -July 25, l967
Gertrude G.
Aug. 8, 1909
Aug. 10, l992
DANTZLER double
Samuel A.
July 20, 1884-Jan. 20, 1968
Lelia Lott Dantzler
Aug. 5, l891 - Feb. 5, 1973
HAWSEY double
James M.
Oct. 2, 1908
Sept 13, 1980
Eva C.
Nov. 30, 1907 - Sept. 8, 1989
James Vernon Hawsey
Alabama Pvt. US Air Force--Korea
Apr. 12, 1931 - Nov. 5, 1973
MCINTYRE double
Edwin Marcus Sr.
Dec. 5, l920 - July 26, 1985
Wilma Dean (Chesser)
Nov. 1, l925 - Jan. 3, 1992
Jimmy Charles Travis
July 13, 1944
Dec. 10, 2000
Bessie Marie Travis
July 16, 1950
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TRAVIS double
James C.
Jan 13, 1912 May 25, 1993
Mary Francis Cary
Mar. 10, l912
Aug.20, 1985
William J Travis
Mar. 18, 1884
Jan. 14, l936
Ida M. Alexander
Apr. 22, l889
Mar. 10, 1926
Mark A. Travis Jr.
May 26, l921
Oct. 28, l928
Dorothy Perkins Coxwell
Aug. 8, 1921
June 27, l996
J,H, Coleman
Apr. 5, 1857
Mar. 3, 1924
Lacretia Williams Coleman
Feb. 1887 - circa l933
Meilly Alabama Coleman
Feb. 1887 -circa l935
Charlie M. Smith
Apr. 6, 1858 - 1927
EM "Bunch" Ray Norris
Mar. 4, 1901 - July 4, l935
Robert Allie Gray
June 1, 1926
JUNE 1, 1929
Perry Coleman
July 11, 1916
Sept l6, l937
Florida Drake Coleman
Feb. 27, 1883
Oct. 14, l934
Broken marble headstone
lettered section missing
Ella Alexander Coleman
May l883, circa 1913
Wife of George Coleman
Dau of James (Judge) Alexander
and Mary alice Brown Alexander
George W. Coleman
Feb. 7, 1881
Apr. 26, l941
daughter
Cora Mae Brown
Apr. 3, l910
Aug. 3, l910
Beulah H.
Wife of WT Brown
Mar. 31, 1881
Oct. 24, 1918
Brown, William T.
Jan. 8, l873
May 13, 1935
Janey Myrtle Brown
1905 - 1969
James T. Brown
1882 - 1857
mother
Annie Lee Wiggins
Aug,. 11, l877
Apr. 14, l959
"Peaceful Rest"
father
William T. Wiggins
Jan. 24, 1875
Oct. 28, l950
"None knew him but to love him"
Daughter
Grace Wiggins
Dec. 4, 1903
Jan 11, l994
MCINTYRE double
Asbury
Nov. 28, 1895
Sept. 29, 1953
Belle
Nov. 1, 1896
Dec. 4, l973
SOWELL double
Emmett O'neal
Aug. 20, 1918
June 20, l996
(Gercile Sowell - not marked)
Linda Joyce Sowell
Oct. 6, l947
Oct. 26, 1960
David H. Sowell
Oct. 16, l894
June 23, 1957
Lannie (Davis) Sowell
May 3, 1897
Mar. 16, 1967
Nathan G. O'Ferrell
Feb. 6, l910
Oct. 14, 1975
"A life of golden deeds"
Opal Dean O'Ferrell
July 15, l914
May 8, 1990
"Mother, Granny and friend to many"
Marvin L. Heaton
Feb. 14, 1907
Jan. 23, 1976
"To live in hearts he
left behind is not to die"
Bernice D. Heaton
June 15, 1912
Oct. ,1997
"To know her is to love her
William Martin Dean
Apr. 30, l900
Mar. 5, l955
"None knew him but to like him"
Aubrey Dean
Mar. 30, 1900
June 24, l961
"Beloved one, fare well"
mother
Gussie Brown Dean
Feb. 16, l889
Mar. 25, l950
"a tender mother and faithful friend"
INFANT son of:
Aubrey and Gussie Dean
Oct. 2, l922
INFANT son of:
Aubrey and Gussie Dean
Sept. 16, 1920
END OF WELCOME CEMETERY 2001 CENSUS....
Taken by Ruth Hester - June 2001
[email protected].
If any corrections are needed
please notify census taker at:
Ruth Hester
Rt. One Box 142
Mckenzie, AL 36456
Ph. (334) 374-0048
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